A county town draws the inhabitants of all vicarages, farms, country houses, and wayside cottages, within a radius of ten miles at least, once or twice a week to its streets; and among them, on this occasion, were Ralph Denham and Mary Datchet.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Clergymen from outlying vicarages come to mention that a cottage flower show, a penny reading, a confirmation, or some such event, is impending, and to suggest the propriety of a full and special account.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The Vicarage at Chatton is another of those north-country vicarages in which an old pele-tower forms part of the modern residence.
"Northumberland Yesterday and To-day"
Jean F. Terry